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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I'm finding it harder and harder to swallow the "scanning the computer for ebooks outside of ADE's library" portion of the claim (not that I'm excusing the transmission of ANY--clear-text or encrypted--personal data). If not a service, then a separate thread/process would need to running while ADE was open to actively search for ebooks on the computer's hard-drive. Something like that should be trivial to detect.
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I don't think ADE scans the whole disk or looks in non-ADE directories for books. However if it is connected to a device that has a directory called "Digital Editions" or "My Digital Editions" containing ADE-style data (Manifest and Annotations entries etc.) then it will scan for the books listed in the manifest.
One issue is that the "Digital Editions" or "My Digital Editions" directory may have manifest entries for books that were never downloaded or opened with ADE, but which were opened/read using an Adobe RMSDK based reader, because such a reader creates Manifest entries for books that it opens even if they are DRM-free and have nothing to do with ADE.
I have no idea whether information about these books is being sent back to Adobe, it is just one way I see that ADE could get to know about non-ADE books on a device.
(My experience is only with ADE 1.7.2, which I use because it is the easiest version to get running in Linux.)